Lars Onsager

Lars Onsager (November 27, 1903 – October 5, 1976) was a Norwegian–American physical chemist and theoretical physicist, winner of the 1968 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He had the Gibbs Professorship of Theoretical Chemistry at Yale University. Lars Onsager was born in Kristiania (today's Oslo), Norway. His father was a lawyer. After completing secondary school in Oslo, he attended the Norwegian Institute of Technology (NTH) in Trondheim, graduating ... more

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  • Nov 27, 1903

Date of death:

  • Oct 5, 1976 (age 72 years)

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Year Award Notes/Description
  • 1968
  • 1968
  • For a brilliant variety of seminal contributions to the understanding of electrolytes and other chemical systems, especially to the thermodynamics of systems in change.
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